Genres
Duration
30 min
Director
Douglas Kiefer
Rating
Rating not available
Release Date
December 31, 1977
Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher
Original title: Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher
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This film is a short documentary portrait of economist, technologist and lecturer Fritz Schumacher. Up to age 45, Schumacher was dedicated to economic growth. Then he came to believe that the modern technological explosion had grown out of all proportion to human need. Author of Small Is Beautiful - A Study of Economics as if People Mattered and founder of the London-based Intermediate Technology Development Group, he championed the cause of "appropriate" technology. The film introduces us to this gentle revolutionary a few months before his death.